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It’s a deadline Trump stated not an opinion piece, google it, there’s a million different news sites all with the same date, stop being a fucking retard.
Yes, I know what his comment was referring to. Congrats on making it easier to buy booze from other provinces lmfao
If you knew what Carney's comment was referring to, then it is even worse that you made the comment the way you did. Because now you are intentionally misleading the audience on what you were planning to say next:
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Supposedly the trade negotiations were at at "an intense phase" back in July. Nothing has been achieved since. We just blow deadline after deadline with no results. Carney is the one that promised: "We intend, from a federal level, to have free trade by Canada day." Carney overestimated his ability to deliver.
Your first sentence is clearly referring to Canada's trade negotiations with the US, and how Carney has not been able to make any meaingful progress. So when you brought up Carney's quote on having free trade by Canada Day, you were clearly suggesting or otherwise trying to confuse / mislead the reader into thinking that Carney meant he would get the US-Canada free trade negotiations done by Canada Day.
So there are really only 2 possible explanations on why you wrote what you did:
1) you were mis-informed yourself in thinking that the Canada Day deadline was for US-Canada free trade, or
2) you knew the Canada Day date was for inter-provincial free trade, but you used it alongside with the US-Canada free trade negotiations to mislead the readers into believing that Carney is ineffective in his negotiations with Trump.
#1 means you are mis-informed / incompetent. And #2 means you intentionally wanted to mislead people.
So take your pick. Which one is it?
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But going back to free trade, it was Carney who mentioned the deadline of August 1st: "Throughout the current trade negotiations with the United States, the Canadian government has steadfastly defended our workers and businesses. We will continue to do so as we work towards the revised deadline of August 1."
Carney Twitter comment was made on July 10. How many times since then has Trump moved the goal post on US-Canada trade negotiations? And how do you negotiate with an irrational party that is clearly negotiating in bad faith? Are we supposed to blame ourselves for that?
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Carney Twitter comment was made on July 10. How many times since then has Trump moved the goal post on US-Canada trade negotiations? And how do you negotiate with an irrational party that is clearly negotiating in bad faith? Are we supposed to blame ourselves for that?
"Trump is a transformational President with a relentless focus on the American worker." - Mark Carney
The original deadline was July 21st then it became August 1st. Both deadlines were blown through. The only thing achieved were embarrassing concessions with the US and nothing in return. Do you think Carney should read The Art of The Deal?
There are many issues that the Office of the US Trade Representative lists the unfair trade practices it claims Canada engages in, starting on page 57. Most of the issues Trump has with Canada are not new and were existing issues under the Biden administration too.
That's right, PP would have blasted into that whitehouse and said
"Listen you Orange Bitch, Canada's not to be fucked with!, take your tarriffs and shove them up your ass"
And Trump would have said "Oh I'm so sorry Mr. PP, you're right, I'm cancelling all the tariffs, and because you're so big and strong and put me in my place I'm giving tax subsidies to all Canadian goods coming across the border"
This is why the elites are so heavily pushing crypto. It's no coincidence our own mayor Sim seems to be spending more time/energy on crypto crap than that of managing the city.
I truly believe this is the eventual goal, prop up crypto while pushing for deregulation, giving them the ability to further keep their funds opaque, making it harder to tax.
I'm no crypto expert at all - I don't know anything about crypto, but I heard some interesting tidbits about crypto misinformation today while being a fly on the wall in some PE bros conversations.
1. People think crypto is 100% secure. It's not automatically, there's something called blockchain security? Something about everything being public too.
2. People think crypto is used by terrorist/criminal organizations because it can't be tracked. Not true, while there's no name tied to the wallet, there is numerical ID (or some kind of consistent ID) tied to those funds and it makes it incredibly easily to track where the funds are moving. Of course the difficult part is figuring out who that ID is associated with, but in terms of tracking money flow, it's very easy.
Thanks for the article! I referred to an AI conference a last week with some key panelist insights - this was the conference.
I think it's definitely about mitigating as much risk as you can, of course there's limitation in this very interconnected world. I had a conversation today with someone about putting a stop gap between my personal devices and work devices. Well, my entire family went to China, with our personal devices that are all connected to the home network... that my work device is connected to. Even if I made sure my end was completely kept separate, there's no guarantee that it's 100% secure, you do the best you can.
Europe is actually a leader in consumer data & privacy and security laws, so much so that in most cases, Canada is seen as very very very far behind. You'll have to correct me on the specific terms for growth stages. Many practitioners from Europe are used to working with very mature companies (and the government as well), whereas in contrast Canada is seen as very early stage with policies fragment as suggestions (as prev. mentioned) and not law (contrasting with GDPR penalties and such). That said the EU has that kind of power bc if you wanna work with 27 countries, this is what you gotta do. A much larger market share than whatever is in Canada - basically nothing. So Canada is more scared about scaring away investment. I still think Quebec does a really good job at balancing encouraging investment and enforcing the laws.
Mr. Fekete at Osler mentions in this article that "Taking the concept of sovereignty to its extreme would mean relying on Canadian companies that have no presence outside the country, and as a result, lack the expertise and funding necessary to compete globally." This is interesting and completely in contrast of what I've heard in industry, where Canada is the preferred country of vendors for European selection, per a report conducted by Deloitte (could be AI lul). Tho otoh, it also makes sense because former Canadian companies that do have an international presence.. just get bought up so they longer are Canadian companies lol
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That's right, PP would have blasted into that whitehouse and said
"Listen you Orange Bitch, Canada's not to be fucked with!, take your tarriffs and shove them up your ass"
And Trump would have said "Oh I'm so sorry Mr. PP, you're right, I'm cancelling all the tariffs, and because you're so big and strong and put me in my place I'm giving tax subsidies to all Canadian goods coming across the border"
And that would have been that.
Was it this thread that had that video of Carney dealing with Trump? That was comedic gold. I know your post is sarcasm, but I feel like this tactic of pushing back aggressively didn't work well for... Ukraine?
I'm no crypto expert at all - I don't know anything about crypto, but I heard some interesting tidbits about crypto misinformation today while being a fly on the wall in some PE bros conversations.
1. People think crypto is 100% secure. It's not automatically, there's something called blockchain security? Something about everything being public too.
2. People think crypto is used by terrorist/criminal organizations because it can't be tracked. Not true, while there's no name tied to the wallet, there is numerical ID (or some kind of consistent ID) tied to those funds and it makes it incredibly easily to track where the funds are moving. Of course the difficult part is figuring out who that ID is associated with, but in terms of tracking money flow, it's very easy.
Criminals can just use a tumbler/mixer. Basically It takes a bunch of crpto from various people mixes it up and sends the crypto to new wallets.
Europe is actually a leader in consumer data & privacy and security laws, so much so that in most cases, Canada is seen as very very very far behind.
Circling back to what westopher and 68style mentioned, Canada has a lot of US-based investors who set up shop in Canada. With that comes data retention and privacy policies that are vague at best, and you have vulnerable sectors such as health care, higher education, telecom, and technology where information may be stored on foreign soil. The moment you store personal records, say for example, on cloud storage based in the US, the US gov't has the ability to take a peek at that data at will through The Patriot Act. Let's not forget about Trump's irrational decision making either.
Some companies and public organizations in Canada (not all!) have stronger policies in place to protect data and privacy of Canadians than others, but this is where the importance of data sovereignty is at stake: We lack the infrastructure, incentives, and public policies that can facilitate the framework required to set ourselves apart. We have models such as GDPR that are very strong, and something Canada can strive towards. However, but it's going to take a lot of work and cultural change for that to happen.
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